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OATH PRESCRIBED BY ACT OF JULY 2, 1862
I, D H Sayers, of Wilmington Country of Clinton and State of Ohio, do solemnly Swear that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the Unites States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto ; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States ; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution, within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further Swear that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true fail and allegiance to the same ; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter : So help me God. 

D H Sayers
Clerk in Bu of R.F. and A.L.
Mobile Ala
Late Private Co "H" 39th O.V.V.I.

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 10th day of August A. D. 1869, at Mobile, Ala.

Geo W. Bond
Judge of Probate
Mobile Co
Ala

Transcription Notes:
O.V.V.I. Ohio Volunteer Veteran Infantry.